How to Use restitute in a Sentence
restitute
verb
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Any items that were found to have been looted would be restituted.
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Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
11 Mar. 2018
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Works that had been confiscated by the Nazis and not restituted should be identified.
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Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
11 Mar. 2018
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At the end of 1998, the Washington Conference tried to wrestle with the question of why so many assets seized from Jews during the Holocaust had never been restituted.
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Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
11 Mar. 2018
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In March, the Orsay was also the first French museum to voluntarily restitute a painting looted by the Nazis.
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Vincent Noce,
CNN,
26 May 2021
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In each instance, a deal was struck: The work was either restituted to the Mosse heirs and then repurchased by the foundation or, based on a loan agreement, allowed to be kept on view with a placard indicating its provenance.
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Berthold Steinhilber,
Smithsonian,
24 May 2018
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Of the several hundred works that escaped the mobs and were subsequently found by invading Allied forces, just 54 have been restituted to the descendants of their original Jewish owners.
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Meilan Solly,
Smithsonian,
24 July 2019
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Numerous artworks plundered by the Nazis have been properly restituted, but thousands more are unaccounted for—or are tied up in legal challenges.
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Berthold Steinhilber,
Smithsonian,
24 May 2018
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Meanwhile, other museums and private collectors, particularly in Germany, had agreed to restitute Glaser works sold at the two 1933 auctions.
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Catherine Hickley,
New York Times,
27 Mar. 2020
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